The phrase "are close in time" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe events or occurrences that happen near each other in terms of time.
Example: "The two meetings are close in time, making it difficult for me to attend both."
Alternatives: "are near in time" or "occur shortly after each other".
Diaries are wicked Exocets that hit well below the waterline - but they are close in time and space to the events they describe, as well as being uncensored at the moment of composition.
Exploiting fuzzy sets, we are able to robustly state whether or not two alerts are "close in time", dealing with noisy and delayed detections.
It is tempting to relate the depiction of the story, with its "distinct and vivid tableaux, well suited to adaptation for performance" to medieval drama, often a source for iconography, but the fragmentary records mention no dramas on the life of St Agnes that are close in time or place to the origin of the cup.
Burst onsets are close in time for flexor synergists (i.e., TA, SA).
It is important to note, that even with the fast brain imaging techniques (TR = 1 sec) employed, we are limited in our ability to completely separate events that are close in time, as could be accomplished with MEG or EEG.
bStrength, S = O - E E × 100, counts of pairs that are close in time and space.
The correlation between repeated assessments within individual patients will be modelled to allow for greater correlation between assessments, which are closer in time.
The first-order autoregressive covariance structure has the property that observations on the same subject that are closer in time are more highly correlated than measurements at times that are farther apart.
33 This Bayesian causal-binding explanation predicts that causal beliefs can lead to temporal compression, but also that temporal compression should be stronger for action effect pairings that are closer in time, as observed by Haggard et al.
Second, a basic tenet of learning theory emphasizes the need for rewards to be close in time to the desired behavior (Skinner 1974).
Spatio-temporal methods aim to determine whether cases that occur close from one another in space also tend to be close in time.
